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19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BIRMINGHAM, THE LARGER CASKET POSSIBLY EARLIER
Details
THREE GILT-METAL MOUNTED JASPER AND AVENTURINE LIDDED CASKETS
19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BIRMINGHAM, THE LARGER CASKET POSSIBLY EARLIER
The jasper casket with milled borders and repoussé foliate escutcheon with engaged foliate baluster angles and probably later brass ball feet, lacking one foot, locked - 5¼ in. (16 cm.) wide; another smaller of aventurine with milled frame and aventurine feet - 4¾ in. (11.5 cm.) wide; and another smaller, lacking base - 3¼ in. (8½ cm.) wide (3)
19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BIRMINGHAM, THE LARGER CASKET POSSIBLY EARLIER
The jasper casket with milled borders and repoussé foliate escutcheon with engaged foliate baluster angles and probably later brass ball feet, lacking one foot, locked - 5¼ in. (16 cm.) wide; another smaller of aventurine with milled frame and aventurine feet - 4¾ in. (11.5 cm.) wide; and another smaller, lacking base - 3¼ in. (8½ cm.) wide (3)
Provenance
The Alberto Pinto Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 29 March 1999, parts of lots 521-523.
Special notice
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